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Brief

Tales of the Unexpected: Environmental Governance in an Uncertain Age

Published on 1 January 2004

Rural people have always faced uncertainty, but on a global and local scale communities increasingly face unknowns due to rapidly changing financial, technological and political processes. If we don’t know what we don’t know, how can we be better prepared for uncertainty and how should we deal with the unexpected?

Authors

Lyla Mehta

Professorial Fellow

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IDS
authors
Mehta, L.
journal
IDS Policy Briefing, issue 16

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